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When times are tough, people like to escape for awhile - whether it's to a movie or for a weekend getaway.  

Any other debt can be escaped with bankruptcy.

Until an 'investor' reaches critical mass (escape velocity) in number of units turning enough profit that even the occasional catastrophe won't  change their life style, it's got to be keep your head in the game and all hands on deck.It's all fun until it's not.  

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My biggest or most unusual problems were: abandoned vehicles, a person escaped from a mental institution, tenants with pet rattlesnakes that escaped their container, a round trip visit to the dentist for a wisdom tooth removal, a one way bus ticket from Kansas to Georgia, cashing $25,000 worth of checks each week for a group of guys from out of state, etc.  

I mostly did it to escape the black hole of renting, and I'm now working on increasing my income so that I can start buying rentals.

Use the one that allows the small fish to escape before being eaten by the big fish.

Hopefully, others will have some (other) "bright ideas" for you to escape this mess, because living in a non-income-producing property, and buying more non-income-producing property, is not an ideal start!

Then I'm told by architects that duplexes are built to a different standard than three plexes, like requiring fire escapes, which by appearances change the nature of the neighborhood, often generating opposition.